Re: [temp.variadic]: variable parameters of the same type

From:
Alberto Ganesh Barbati <AlbertoBarbati@libero.it>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:50:20 CST
Message-ID:
<3dHbk.21229$Ca.14718@twister2.libero.it>
Bo Persson ha scritto:

Rodolfo Lima wrote:

Hi, I need some help to define a function that accepts a variable
number of parameters of the same type and I wonder if c++0x's
variadic templates would help me.
After looking at c++0x's current draft specification it seems it
isn't possible. I want something along the lines of:

struct A { A(int){} };

template <A... ARGS> void function(ARGS... args) {}

function(A(3), A(2), A(5)); // should be ok

struct B { B(int){} };
function(A(4), B(3), A(1)); // should be an error

Is there a way to accomplish this with variadic templates?


You can extend the is_same test from <type_traits> to work for the
variadic arguments:

       // same types?

       template<class, class ...> // not defined
       struct SameTypes;

       template<class ValueT>
       struct SameTypes<ValueT> : true_type
       { };

       template<class FirstT, class SecondT, class ... ArgTypes>
       struct SameTypes<FirstT, SecondT, ArgTypes...>
          : public std::integral_constant<bool,
               std::is_same<FirstT, SecondT>::value &&
               SameTypes<FirstT, ArgTypes...>::value >
       { };

Then you can use a

std::enable_if<SameTypes<ARGS...>::value>

to guard your function.


When we will have concepts in C++, all this could be written as:

   template <class... ARGS>
     requires SameType<A, ARGS>...
   void function(ARGS... args) {}

HTH,

Ganesh

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